When even gratuitous female nudity can't energise the lazy pod people of America, then there's nothing left but to turn these shows into Thunderdome for celebrities.
And so Obama salted his campaign speeches with ExxonMobil references even when they were gratuitous.
Perhaps their behavior is only abusive and gratuitous when resources are abundant and warfare unnecessary.
Some enjoy watching it; but that does not diminish the offence caused when it is gratuitous.
It is easy to see her rude-girl persona as gratuitous, when it is carefully thought through.
Imagine my chagrin when viewing the gratuitous violence and sexuality, complete with blood and women bursting out of their scanty costumes.
For that reason, it seems gratuitous when he strays from his argument about markets and democracy to criticize Clinton-era foreign policy decisions, like the expansion of NATO.
"I don't know if this is true, but I think that older audiences are a bit more aware of when sex is gratuitous, when it's not integral to the story, but if it is, then they're fine with it".
"This other stuff, when you get gratuitous in attacking someone's character, someone's fundamental humanity, that's over the line," Mr. Axelrod said, adding that Mr. Romney should have chastised the woman in Ohio right away.
"A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake," he said, adding, "We thought if we were to look at these scenes as we would look at any other scene, to advance the plot, or drive conflict, or overcome an obstacle, then we could apply all that we already knew about scene work and craft to the scene".
